Metallic shingle.



J. T. HAMILTON.

METALLIC SHINGLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11, 1913.

1,143,266. Patented June 15, 1915.

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THE NORRIS PETERS CO4. PHOTO-LITHQ. WASHINGION D. C.

JAMES T. HAMILTON, OF DAVENPORT, OKLAHOMA.

METALLIC SHINGLE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 15 1915.

Application filed Junei7,1913. Serial No. 774,179.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs T. T'TeM IL'lON, a citizen of the United States, resldlng at Davenport, in the. county of Lincoln and' State of Oklahoma, have invented new and useful Improvements in Metallic Shingles, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention has relation to metallic shingles and it consists in the novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide a shingle of the character indicated of simple structural arrangement and at the same time one that may readily contract and eX- pand without opening seams in a roof when the shingles are applied. 7 Each shingle is provided at its opposite side edges with flanges and these flanges are adapted to interlock whereby the shingles are held in proper relation to each other. The flanges of shingles in adjacent rows are interlocked by sliding one shlngle along the other.

These flanges tend to prevent the shingle from bending or buckling longitudinally and each shingle is provided at its ends and between its flanges with corrugated portions which tend to. prevent the shingle from 'buckling or bending transversely. The

V eave shingles flange at one side edge of the shingle con 'sists of a double fold of material and the flange at the opposite side portion of the shingle consists of a triplicate fold of material. The double fold of material is provided in the vicinity of one end with an incision whereby the inner upper portion of the said fold may be slightly distorted or bent up so that a shingle positioned at a lower portion on the roof may receive a shingle positioned upon the upper portion of the roof whereby the shingles may overlap each other in alinement from the eaves to the ridge ofthe roof. Cleats of a special provided for holdingthe configuration are at their lower end portion in position upon the roof and securing devices through the upper end of each shingle and scantling of the roof.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1- is a'perspective viewof the section of a roof with the shingle applied. The remaining figures are detail views of the various features of the shingle.

As the shingles are all of the same design and pattern a description of one will answer.

. Each shingle 1 is provided at one longi- 'up of a series alternately arranged.

are embedded in the tudinal edge with an upstanding flange consisting of double folds 2 of material. But the opposite edge of the shingle is provided with an upstanding flange consisting of triple folds 3 of material. The shingle l is provided at its lower edge with transversely disposed corrugations 4: and at its upper edge portion with transversely disposed corrugations 5. These corrugations serve to prevent the shingle from buckling or bending ,transverselv while the flanges at the longitudinal edges of the shingle serve to prevent the shingle from buckling or bending longitudinally. The innermost fold 2 of each shingle is provided in the vicinity of the corrugations 5 with an incision 6; whereby the upper portion of the innermost fold may be bent or distorted so that the lower end of the corresponding flange of the next adjacent shingle above in the same line of the one on the roof may be engaged with the flange of the lowermost shingle so that the uppermost shingles of the roof may over lap with the upper edges of the next lower shingles throughout the line of shingles.

When the shingles are placed upon a roof, the lower or eave course of shingles is made of long and short shingles These eaves shingles are provided at one side edge with clips 7 which engage with the double fold flanges 2 and constitutecleats and are secured by nails or other securing members to the scantling of the roof. Nails 8 or other securing devices are driven transversely through the upper end of each shingle and are embedded in the roof. When a shingle in the lower course is positioned upon the roof, a shingle which is to be placed above the said shingle upon the roof and in the same line is slit so that its triple fold 3 engages the corresponding fold of the shingle previously positioned. In order to do this, the shingle which is being applied must beheld with its edge having a double fold slightly elevated. When the shingle which is being positioned is sufficiently engaged with the triple fold of the previously positioned shingle, the material of the double fold 2 above the incision 6 is bent up and then the uppermost shingle is laid down fiat upon the positioned shingle. The said material of the double fold 2 above the incision 6 is then bent down over the innermost fold of the double fold of the upper shingle and the securing devices are passed through the upper portion of the uppermost shingle.

This operation is repeated throughout the complete set of shingles. By providing long and short shingles and the cave course, the joints between the rows of shingles from the eaves to the gables will brace each other, that is to say the joints in one row occur between the joints inthe next adjacent rows. To oomplete the rows of shingles at the ridge of the'roof longand short shingles are also an ployed.

Therefore it will be seen that a shingle of simple pattern is provided and that the parts of the shingle are so disposed as to effectually brace the same and While the shingles may be capable of limited contraction and expansion While in the position the incision 6 the end portion of the said fold may be easily raised for the purpose ofv placing the next shingle in position and this Copies of this'patent may be obtained for maybe done without distorting the longer portion of the said fold." Thus the danger of damaging a shingle which'has been placed is reduced and a substantial and tight roofis provided.

Having thus described th i ti What is claimed as new is A shingle formed from'a metallic sheet which is approximately rectangular in plan and having at one side edge an upstanding flange consistingof a double fold of material the inner oneof whichis provided in the'vi'cinity of the end of' the shingle with a transverse incision which extends from the i 4O edge of the flange tovthe line of connection between the folds ofthefiange, the shingle 1;

being-provided'at its opposite edge with a flange consisting of atriple fold of the material.

in presence of two witnesses.

lVitnesses: H V 'J. G. MGOU'E, N, P. MYERS.-

washington, D. G. a J

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature JAMES T. HAMILTON.

five cents each, by: afidressing'the Commissioner of Patents, 

